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{ "title": "For thy mercy and thy grace", "author": "", "tune": "St. Austell", "number": "611", "lyrics": "For thy mercy and thy grace,\nFaithful through another year,\nHear our song of thankfulness;\nFather, and Redeemer, hear.\n\nLo! our sins on thee we cast,\nThee, our perfect sacrifice;\nAnd, forgetting all the past,\nPress towards our glorious prize.\n\nDark the future; let thy light\nGuide us, Bright and Morning Star:\nFierce our foes, and hard the fight;\nArm us, Saviour, for the war.\n\nIn our weakness and distress,\nRock of strength, be thou our stay;\nIn the pathless wilderness\nBe our true and living way.\n\nKeep us faithful, keep us pure,\nKeep us evermore thine own;\nHelp, O help us to endure;\nFit us for the promised crown.\n\nSo within thy palace gate\nWe shall praise, on golden strings,\nThee, the only Potentate,\nLord of lords, and King of kings.", "first_line": "For thy mercy and thy grace," }